Written by Jerry Lieber, Mike Stoller



The warden threw a party in the county jail.

The prison band was there and they began to wail.

The band was jumpin' down they began to swing.

You should've heard those jailbirds sing.

Let's rock, everybody, let's rock.

Everybody in the whole cell block

was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock.



Well Spider Murphy played on the saxophone,

Little Joe was blowin' on the slide trombone.

The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang,

the whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang.

Let's rock, everybody, let's rock.

Everybody in the whole cell block

was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock.



Well number forty-seven said to number three: